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Dysbiosis in metabolic genes of the gut microbiomes of patients with an ileo-anal pouch resembles that observed in Crohn's Disease

2020-09-25 gastroenterology Title + abstract only
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BackgroundCrohns disease (CD), ulcerative colitis (UC) and pouchitis are multifactorial and chronic inflammatory diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, termed together as inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD). Pouchitis develops in former patients with UC after total proctocolectomy and ileal pouch-anal anastomosis ("pouch surgery") and is characterized by inflammation of the previously normal small intestine comprising the pouch. It has been extensively shown that broad taxonomic and functional al...

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